[Unposted MLB] Pac Bell Renamed to SBC

[jonovate]

This supposedly happened on the 16th or so:

With the New Year came a new ballpark moniker -- SBC Park -- and workers continue to unscrew old signs in a massive project. By March, all Pacific Bell signs will be gone, to be replaced by bright new ones with the SBC name. We're talking everything, even the large trash cans.

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/NASApp/...ws_sf&fext=.jsp

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/NASApp/...ark_history.jsp

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor..._jim&id=1718810

[CatnipOligarchy]

yeah corporate stadium names suck.

[nazgul]

:angry: That's messed up.

[aem4162]

i hate corporate names on stadiums!

[Bling3k12]

Don't see a problem... the company no longer exists, SBC bought the naming rights. You wouldn't just buy the rights and leave everything branded to a non-existant entity.

[CatnipOligarchy]

Don't see a problem... the company no longer exists, SBC bought the naming rights. You wouldn't just buy the rights and leave everything branded to a non-existant entity.

but its not that easy. stadiums are identified with their teams and if they are changing names every couple of years, its really just not the same. i'm proud to be a fan of a team that has never had a corporate named stadium

[corrosive23]

uhh dont the braves play at turner field? so they are a corporate team.

As for the giants, i long for the days when they used to play at candlestick park

[firen]

Pac Bell Park has more of a ring to it...but SBC park? :/ sounds b00ring (N)

[Toxikk Veteran]

wasnt pac bell still a corp name?

[Greenstein]

wasnt pac bell still a corp name?

I agree....isn't Pacific Bell a regional telecommunications company on the west coast?

[Statikk]

They most definitely were until bought out/merged/name changed to SBC. Not sure what happend really.

[CatnipOligarchy]

uhh dont the braves play at turner field? so they are a corporate team.

the field was named after ted turner, not his corporation. the stadium was built for the olympics and converted into a baseball stadium and the naming rights were never sold.

[IlliniPi]

I remember when 'The Cell' use to be Comiskey. :cry:

[CatnipOligarchy]

I remember when 'The Cell' use to be Comiskey.  :cry:

it still is and always will be as far as im concerned, along with joe robbie stadium, candlestick park, and the now dead riverfront and jack murphy stadiums

[sirholio]

it still is and always will be as far as im concerned, along with joe robbie stadium, candlestick park, and the now dead riverfront and jack murphy stadiums

You would be correct on that one...

I am a big niners and giants fan though i live in new york...

They'll always be candlestick and pac bell.

[autodefe]

Old news, especially for me... I drive by the stadium almost weekly ;)

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it still is and always will be as far as im concerned, along with joe robbie stadium, candlestick park, and the now dead riverfront and jack murphy stadiums

As for me. I refuse to brand the stadiums.